Why does sc4 crash

Well, given my experience with supporting computers, I'd say the problem will be one of two things. However, one fact here is very important to consider, that the problem seems to be intermittent.

So why is it that sometimes the game can start, but most of the time it doesn't? What "change" or difference is giving us the varying results?

Such problems can be the hardest to diagnose, because even when you think you've "fixed" things, the problem can come back. This makes any results you get from trying solutions tentative and hard to rely on. As such, I feel it's important to rule out any potential hardware issues before moving forward. So I'm not saying your hard drive is broken or corrupting data, but it's certainly a possibility.

Just like it's also possible you have corrupted RAM. In both cases, it doesn't necessarily figure that this issue would highlight itself more generally.

However, both of these problems are very easy to test, the purpose of doing so, as much as anything, is so moving forwards, we can have complete confidence they are not the root cause of your problems. In the case of Hard Drives, all manufactures offer free diagnostic tools which will do full scans of your drives and report back any problems. In the case of the latter, it could take several hours to scan the drive.

But you can click "run" and leave it unattended, it's not user-intensive at all. Faults with these rarely simply prevent software running and when they do, almost always it ends with not only a CTD but more likely a BSOD or the computer needing to be reset at the very least to recover. As such, I think we can safely rule them out. But these can be quite intensive and if we try that before we are certain your hardware is fine, could be a humongous waste of time, should that later prove to be the case.

So even if hardware faults aren't likely, it makes much more sense to do things in this order. Right, I'll run some diagnostics on the next startup of my PC. I'll get back to you with answers! And now it works again I have not ran the diagnostics yet. I was am YouTube and am in a Skypecall and now it works. I am not saying that that is the solution, obviously not haha, merely stating that some processes might interfere with it booting properly?

Running the dianostics overnight. Absolutely, a conflict with another background process is a real possibility. The hard part would be identifying the culprit, but it depends on how familiar you are with Windows startup configurations. This utility allows you to control which services and applications run on startup. To begin, you can simply select "diagnostic startup" from the first screen. Reboot after the change and see how things work out. If that reliably gets SC4 working, you'll have to manually go through the applications under the "Startup" tab first, to try and identify the problem application.

If that doesn't highlight the problem, then move on to the "Services" tab. Obvious candidates are usually Virus scanners or similar software, but you never know what can cause such conflicts. Given how time-consuming this can be to track down, I hope you'll appreciate why I wanted to get the all clear first on the hardware side. If you need more detailed help with this, just let me know. I guess you could say the problem is "fixed" now.

Yesterday my harddrive C corrupted. I was able to run a recovery from my D drive, resulting in C having to be wiped. I am running a data recovery, but I don't know how much that will be able to recover. The emergency dispatch is another important tool. The player will have a fire crew for every fire station in the city 2 for a large fire station. If there are no fire stations, a volunteer fire brigade is available, but only in some SimCity titles.

Once firefighters on are the scene, they will contain the fire and prevent it from spreading outwards. The National Guard SimCity can also be used to stop the fire from spreading to their locations. It's best to use these on expensive buildings.

SimCity Explore. Game mechanics Zone City building Transportation City services. Growable buildings Ploppable buildings Civic buildings Reward objects Business deals. Advisor Dr. Rush Hour Deluxe Edition. Network Addon Mod. Explore Wikis Community Central. Store Page. SimCity 4 Deluxe Store Page. EDIT: Much easier way has been brought to my attention by the awesome Slovenian In your library section, right click on SimCity 4, click properties and then under the general tab click on Launch Options and then type -CPUCount:1 This does the exact same thing that I just described below.

Thank you. This method can be done from anytime during the game but the sooner the better. Well let the game load at least first. There was some reason about how the game isn't optimized to run on multicore processors or something. All I know is it works. It's a hassle but it's better than it freezing. Last edited by oceanassassin ; 11 Dec, am. Showing 1 - 15 of 15 comments. Setting the Launch Options to include -CPUCount:1 does the same thing, you won't have to set it everytime you play then.

Originally posted by slovenian89 :. Grezz View Profile View Posts. I've loved isometric strategy games since I was young, and was really looking forward to playing this, but it just quits while trying to load a map. I've tried both the above solutions multiple times, but still no luck. Can anyone offer help? My thanks to the first two posts.